Editorial

Björn Steinz earned Bachelor and Master of Arts Degrees at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU). After his studies he began working as a freelance photographer and part time teacher in Czech Republic and Germany - mostly in the area of Documentary Photography, Portraiture and Photojournalism.

From 2009 till 2011 he worked as an Assistant Professor of Photography at Keimyung University in Daegu, South Korea. His photography has been exhibited in Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, South Korea, China and published in printed media such as »Du«, »Die Zeit«, »The Financial Times«, »Geo Special«, »The Independent«, »Der Spiegel«, »Newsweek« and others.

Björn Steinz is living in Prague/Czech Republic and represented by the London based agency »Panos Pictures«.

Sister Anna

Vaclav Havel

Former Czech President Vaclav Havel during a ceremony at the Prague Goethe Institute receiving the "Dolf Sternberg" price on the 23rd of October 2007. Havel died on the 18th of December 2011 in the age of 75 years.

Vilma Cibulkova

Mario Bihari

Mario Bihari with his band "Bachtale Apsa" in Prague. Mario is a well known blind Roma musician originally from Slovakia living since he finished his studies in Prague, Czech Republic. Mario is also experimenting with photography as a another way to express himself.

Auschwitz (Oswiecim), Poland

Auschwitz (Oswiecim), Poland

Eva Mozes Kor, a survivor of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp, attending the ceremony to mark the 60th anniversary of its liberation on the 27th of January 2005. She is holding a photograph of herself and her twin sister Miriam taken by the Soviets after the liberation of the camp.

Auschwitz (Oswiecim), Poland

Auschwitz (Oswiecim), Poland

"We have to do our job professional and we have to keep an emotional distance to our work and this place. I could not switch of these emotions in the beginning at all. I am working with the art of the prisoners what was a symbol of hope for them." Agnieszka Sieradzka, employee at the Auschwitz memorial.

Auschwitz (Oswiecim), Poland

Tomtor

Steam rising into the air from a burner immediately transforms into ice in a temperature of minus 57 degrees Celcius in Tomtor, one of the coldest inhabited places on earth having recorded some of the lowest temperatures.

The Pole of Cold

The Pole of Cold - Tomtor village

"The Pole of Cold" - Tomtor village seen from a nearby mountain. The area is extremely cold during the winter. Two towns by the highway, Tomtor and Oymyakon, both claim the coldest inhabited place on earth (often referred to as -71.2 Celsius ) outside of Antarctica.

A Wall Runs Through It - Lunik IX

The Lunik IX housing estate is home to the largest Roma community in Slovakia. It is located a few kilometers away from the historical city centre, on the outskirts of the eastern Slovakian city of Kosice.

A Wall Runs Through It - Ostrovany

A Wall Runs Through It - Ostrovany

Teenager Dusan is playing with his dog Bielku beside the wall on the side of the Roma settlement in Ostrovany. The wall was erected in 2009 to divide private properties from the neighbouring Roma settlement.